Human myometrial quiescence and activation during gestation and parturition involve dramatic changes in expression and activity of particulate type II (RIIα) protein kinase A holoenzyme

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2194-2205

  MacDougall, Malcolm W J ^a   Europe Finner, G Nicholas ^a   Robson, Stephen C ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; HOLOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INFORMED CONSENT; LABOR; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UTERUS FUNCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADULT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSORBENT TECHNIQUES; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOMETRIUM; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PARTURITION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0038030756     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2002-021862     Document Type: Article

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